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Yoshiji Kigami is a Storyboard, Storyboard Artist and Key Animation Japonais born on 28 december 1957

Yoshiji Kigami

Yoshiji Kigami
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Nationality Japon
Birth 28 december 1957
Death 18 july 2019 (at 61 years)

Yoshiji Kigami ((木上 益治, Kigami Yoshiji) est un animateur, réalisateur de télévision et un réalisateur de films d’animation japonais né le 28 décembre 1957 et mort le 18 juillet 2019 à Kyoto.

Biography

Enfant, Kigami était grand amateur des films de Disney et des anime basés sur les mangas de Osamu Tezuka ce qui l'amène à devenir animateur. Il a commencé à travailler chez Shin-Ei Animation avant de rejoindre Kyoto Animation. Kigami obtient la reconnaissance de l'industrie de l'animation pour son travail sur Le Tombeau des lucioles et Akira comme animateur-clé. En 2003, Kigami réalise sa première œuvre, Munto, et devient par la suite instructeur au sein du programme d'apprentissage de Kyoto Animation.

Le 18 juillet 2019, un homme a allumé un incendie dans le studio 1 de Kyoto Animation, faisant au moins 35 morts et 33 blessés. D'abord porté disparu, son décès dans l'incendie est confirmé par la police le 2 août.

Best films

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
(Key Animation)

Usually with

Keiichi Hara
Keiichi Hara
(3 films)
Masaaki Yuasa
Masaaki Yuasa
(4 films)
Fūrin Cha
Fūrin Cha
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Yoshiji Kigami (13 films)

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Scriptwriter

A Silent Voice: The Movie, 2h12
Directed by Naoko Yamada
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Animation, Romance
Actors Miyu Irino, Aoi Yūki, Yūki Kaneko, Yui Ishikawa, Megumi Han, Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Roles Storyboard
Rating81% 4.05514.05514.05514.05514.0551
Nishimiya est une élève douce et attentionnée. Chaque jour, pourtant, elle est harcelée par Ishida, car elle est sourde. Dénoncé pour son comportement, le garçon est à son tour mis à l'écart et renvoyé du lycée. Des années plus tard, il apprend la langue des signes et part à la recherche de la jeune fille.

Art

A Silent Voice: The Movie, 2h12
Directed by Naoko Yamada
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Animation, Romance
Actors Miyu Irino, Aoi Yūki, Yūki Kaneko, Yui Ishikawa, Megumi Han, Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Roles Storyboard Artist
Rating81% 4.05514.05514.05514.05514.0551
Nishimiya est une élève douce et attentionnée. Chaque jour, pourtant, elle est harcelée par Ishida, car elle est sourde. Dénoncé pour son comportement, le garçon est à son tour mis à l'écart et renvoyé du lycée. Des années plus tard, il apprend la langue des signes et part à la recherche de la jeune fille.

Visual effects

Liz and the Blue Bird
Genres Drama, Musical, Animation
Actors Nao Tōyama, Ayaka Asai, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Chika Anzai, Miyu Honda, Moe Toyota
Roles Key Animation
Rating71% 3.5548853.5548853.5548853.5548853.554885
Mizore est une lycéenne en troisième et dernière année qui joue du hautbois dans l'orchestre de son lycée, Kitauji, dans la ville d'Uji. Sa meilleure et plus proche amie, qui occupe la plupart de ses pensées, est Nozomi, une des joueuses de flûte traversière qui est bien plus extravertie et populaire dans le lycée. Toutes les deux, elles doivent réaliser, dans le cadre d'un concours d'orchestre, un duo durant le morceau Liz et l'Oiseau bleu, qui est basé sur le conte de fée allemand éponyme Liz und ein Blauer Vogel que Nozomi aimait étant enfant et qui raconte l'histoire d'une femme appelée Liz (représentée par le hautbois dans le morceau) et d'un oiseau bleu qui prend l'aspect d'une jeune fille (représenté par la flûte) qui deviennent meilleures amies et vivent ensemble jusqu'au jour où Liz décide de forcer l'oiseau à reprendre sa liberté en quittant la maison pour qu'il puisse vivre sa vie pleinement.
A Silent Voice: The Movie, 2h12
Directed by Naoko Yamada
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Animation, Romance
Actors Miyu Irino, Aoi Yūki, Yūki Kaneko, Yui Ishikawa, Megumi Han, Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Roles Key Animation
Rating81% 4.05514.05514.05514.05514.0551
Nishimiya est une élève douce et attentionnée. Chaque jour, pourtant, elle est harcelée par Ishida, car elle est sourde. Dénoncé pour son comportement, le garçon est à son tour mis à l'écart et renvoyé du lycée. Des années plus tard, il apprend la langue des signes et part à la recherche de la jeune fille.
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, 2h44
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation, Romance
Actors Tomokazu Sugita, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yūko Gotō, Daisuke Ono, Wendee Lee
Roles Key Animation
Rating79% 3.9963053.9963053.9963053.9963053.996305
Following on from the events of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime series, the story takes place from December 16 until December 24, a month after the cultural festival. The SOS Brigade, led by Haruhi Suzumiya (Aya Hirano), makes plans to have a nabe party for Christmas. However, on the morning of December 18, Kyon (Tomokazu Sugita) arrives at school and finds that the very nature of his reality has changed; Haruhi and Itsuki Koizumi (Daisuke Ono) are missing, Ryoko Asakura (Natsuko Kuwatani) has mysteriously returned, Mikuru Asahina (Yūko Gotō) does not recognize him and Yuki Nagato (Minori Chihara) is an ordinary human. Only Kyon is aware that everything is different and no one else remembers anything about Haruhi or the SOS Brigade. The only clue Kyon manages to find is a bookmark left by the alien version of Yuki before everything was changed, telling him to gather "keys" to run a program. While wondering about this clue, he gets to know the new Yuki, who appears to be quite fond of him. As December 20 comes, Kyon learns from Taniguchi (Minoru Shiraishi) that Haruhi was at another high school the whole time, along with Itsuki and others formerly from his school. By revealing his identity to her as 'John Smith', an alias he had used when he travelled back in time to assist a young Haruhi, Kyon manages to convince Haruhi to believe his story. With her assistance they gather the SOS Brigade together in the club room, thus bringing the keys necessary for a program built by alien Yuki.
Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil, 1h33
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Akiko Yajima, Yumi Takada, Keiji Fujiwara, Tesshō Genda, Takeshi Aono, Nachi Nozawa
Roles Key Animation
Rating67% 3.350293.350293.350293.350293.35029
Action Kamen's 'Action Stone' has been robbed by Leotard Devil (Higure Rakshas called in India). Without the Action stone, he can't go to his world. So he chooses Shinchan and his family to get back his stone through the Action Card numbered 99 (the most precious card in the whole set of choco chips.) According to the plan of Action Kamen and Ririko, they make Shinchan's family to move to a beach so they can make them travel to the parallel world so they could help them to defeat the Leotard Devil (Higure Rakshas in India).
Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds, 1h38
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about cats, Children's films
Actors Kaneta Kimotsuki, Miki Hirano, Ryōichi Tanaka
Roles Key Animation
Rating68% 3.444853.444853.444853.444853.44485
A boy, his father, and his grandfather are stranded in an island after their boat is crushed by a storm. The boy's grandfather sees a spaceship ordering him to leave as there will be a storm that will flood the island. That night, a storm does indeed come and floods the island.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet, 1h40
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about cats, Films about extraterrestrial life, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Tomokazu Seki, Yumi Kakazu, Kiyoshi Kawakubo, Masato Hirano, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Toku Nishio
Roles Key Animation
Rating67% 3.393753.393753.393753.393753.39375
It starts with Nobita seeing a mysterious pink gas at his house. He enters it and arrives at a planet where all animals that can talk. When he wakes up, he tells his dream to his friends. But they do not believe him. When back home, he sees a flower which he had taken from that planet.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan, 1h40
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Films about cats, Children's films
Actors Kaneta Kimotsuki, Yōko Matsuoka, Issei Futamata, Fūrin Cha, Ichirō Nagai, Gara Takashima
Roles Key Animation
Rating68% 3.4357653.4357653.4357653.4357653.435765
The movie starts with a boy who belongs to prehistoric time hunting a fish, gets captured in to time vortex and reaches to the 20th century. In the 20th century, Nobita wants to run away from his home, as depicted many times in various episodes. As a result of failing to find an ideal home, Nobita decides to make a makeshift place to live. However, he still cannot find a place to live due to land property ownership laws. At the same time, Shizuka, Gian, Suneo and Doraemon want to run away from their homes. Then Nobita suggests that they should go back in time to live in a place with very few humans. The group agrees with him and thus, they return to the past Japan, which is 70000 years back from then.
Akira
Akira (1988)
, 2h4
Directed by Takashi Nakamura, Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Motocyclette, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshō Genda, Tarō Ishida, Hiroshi Ōtake
Roles Key Animation
Rating79% 3.999393.999393.999393.999393.99939
On 16 July 1988, an orb of light destroys Tokyo and World War III begins. Thirty-one years later, in the city of Neo-Tokyo, Shotaro Kaneda has his bōsōzoku gang, the Capsules, battle their rival gang, the Clowns. While there, Kaneda's best friend, Tetsuo Shima, crashes his motorcycle into Takashi, an esper with psychic powers, who had fled from a secret government laboratory with help from a covert operative. Colonel Shikishima, assisted by another esper called Maseru, has Takashi escorted back to his original lodgings and Tetsuo is abducted. When Kaneda and his gang are interrogated, he encounters Kei, a member of the revolutionary group, and arranges her release along with the Capsules.
Grave of the Fireflies, 1h30
Directed by Isao Takahata
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Feminist films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Children's films
Actors Veronica Taylor
Roles Key Animation
Rating84% 4.2495654.2495654.2495654.2495654.249565
The film begins at Sannomiya Station on 21 September 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. A boy, Seita (清太), is shown dying of starvation. Later that night, having removed Seita's body, a janitor digs through his possessions and finds a candy tin which he throws away into a nearby field. The spirit of Seita's younger sister, Setsuko (節子), springs from the tin and is joined by Seita's spirit as well as a cloud of fireflies. Seita's spirit then begins to narrate their story accompanied by an extended flashback of the final months of World War II.
Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars, 1h37
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kaneta Kimotsuki, Ryūsei Nakao, Keiko Han
Roles Key Animation
Rating71% 3.580913.580913.580913.580913.58091
Papi, the tiny president of a faraway planet, escapes to Earth to avoid being captured by the military forces that took over.
Macross: Do You Remember Love?, 1h55
Directed by Shōji Kawamori, Katsuhito Akiyama (秋山勝仁), Noboru Ishiguro
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Action, Adventure, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Space opera, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Mari Iijima, Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Michio Hazama, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Ryūsuke Ōbayashi
Roles Key Animation
Rating76% 3.8412553.8412553.8412553.8412553.841255
The film begins in medias res with the space fortress Macross trying to evade the Zentradi at the edge of the Solar System. The Macross houses an entire city with tens of thousands of civilians who are cut off from Earth, after it had executed a space fold on the first day of the Earth/Zentradi war - taking the city section of South Ataria Island with it. During the latest assault, Valkyrie pilot Hikaru Ichijyo rescues pop idol Lynn Minmay, but are both trapped in a section of the fortress for days. Even after their eventual rescue, this fateful meeting leads to a relationship between the singer and her number one fan.